Hayley Roberts created a mind map and mood board to help choose a photographic technique for a nature-themed project. Hayley considered techniques like scanography, multiple exposure, high-speed photography, and out-of-focus images. Hayley was torn between scanography and multiple exposure but ultimately chose multiple exposure because it seemed more interesting, fun, and allowed for more post-production flexibility. Multiple exposure would let Hayley combine nature images like trees and flowers with portraits in creative ways to produce unique effects in each photo.

1. Mind Map and Mood Board
Hayley Roberts

3. Example Images

4. Inspirational Images

5. Images Related To Nature

6. Chosen Idea – Multiple Exposure

7. • Slide One: I looked at numerous images that were related to some of the methods and effects that I had thought about in my mind
map. I was really torn between the scanography effect and the multiple exposure effect as the scanography effect makes the
subjects look more like paintings and they create really soft images and I think this would of worked well using flowers. Using bright
coloured flowers against the background makes the images look intriguing and the subject stand out. I found the multiple exposure
effect really different and I also really like the images with the black and white effect as it makes the images look really peaceful and
I think this would be really easy to do and not time consuming at all and because I’m doing nature it fits in with this effect really
well. I thought that the high speed photography would have been too difficult and because I chose the theme nature, it would have
left me limited on what I could actually do and could of got repetitive. I also found some of the out of focus images really soft and
interpret nature in a different way and it limits the audience to what they can actually see and I like this idea, but I found the
scanography and the multiple exposure method the most interesting effect out of all the images I collected.
• Slide Two: I found quite a few inspiring images that I thought looked really interesting. I really liked how some of the landscape
images were taken with a few filters on them to give them slightly different coloured effects over the top of them and this made the
images a lot brighter and gave the images a warmer tone to them. I also found some images of flowers which were created using a
splash effect and this made them look like painted flowers and I felt this was really different and very clever to do but it would have
been too time consuming and difficult to actually achieve. I found with the multiple exposure effect I could actually use body parts
as well as portraits and I liked the fact that the photos I collected used hands and did the effect that way. I think this would make an
interesting series of images and I liked the fact that the trees were coming out the bottom of the hands so there wasn’t a sudden
stop to the image and it flowed throughout.
• Slide Three: I found a collection of images that were all related to my idea and this gave me an indication to what I could take my
images of. I liked the idea of taking images of trees and woodland and I always liked the idea of taking images of different flowers as
they come in a variety of colours and sizes and they all have slightly different textures just like different leaves do and the bark on
trees and this is what intrigued me. I didn’t think taking images of insects and wildlife would work as well with this topic because
with the methods I was looking at it would have been very difficult to achieve with animals so this is why I find trees and flowers
more interesting for the methods I have looked at.
• Slide Four: I finally decided out of scanography and the multiple exposure effect that the multiple exposure effect was a lot more
interesting and more fun for me to do as I liked the more post-production and the technical side of the method. I liked the different
effects that can be created with this method. For example, an image of a landscape can be placed inside an image of a portrait or it
could be simply placed over the top of the image and this could create a different effect every time. I also liked how the images look
in monochrome and I also liked the way the landscape images can be framed in body parts, such as hands as it is slightly different
than putting them just in plain portraits and different shapes can be created using hands and fingers which will give the images a
broad outline.